semidetached
adjective
semi·de·tached ˌse-mē-di-ˈtacht 
ˌse-ˌmī-,
-mi-
: forming one of a pair of residences joined into one building by a common sidewall
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Our family lived in a semidetached, two-story house with three bedrooms in a lower middle-class suburb of Bristol, England. 
Marc Myers, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022 The other is a semidetached house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms listed for $349,900. Anastazja Kolodziej, Washington Post, 22 June 2022 Like so much ordnance dropped by the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz, the bomb went astray, instead burying itself in a semidetached house on a quiet residential street, where Ciara Louise Boulding, a 67-year-old widow, was sheltering. Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021 Suburban semidetached houses needed something between and around gardens to mark property. Kieran Dodds; Text By Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2020 The Masters’ Houses, a short walk, include three pairs of identical semidetached houses for the Bauhaus masters and a detached single home for its director. Margo Pfeiff, latimes.com, 16 June 2019 The two live in a semidetached, Victorian house in Kenilworth and sometimes ride their bikes together the few miles to and from the Warwick campus. Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2014 Up the hill from the Anacostia Arts Center, Kadija Bangura, the center’s marketing manager, who grew up in London with parents from Trinidad and Sierra Leone, paid $187,000 in 2013 for her 1905 semidetached house. New York Times, 5 June 2018 The house is segmented into four semidetached barns, each shaped with the straightforwardness of a Monopoly house, its crisp corners and sharp silhouette revealing the eye of a modernist. Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2015 See More
Marc Myers, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022 The other is a semidetached house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms listed for $349,900. Anastazja Kolodziej, Washington Post, 22 June 2022 Like so much ordnance dropped by the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz, the bomb went astray, instead burying itself in a semidetached house on a quiet residential street, where Ciara Louise Boulding, a 67-year-old widow, was sheltering. Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021 Suburban semidetached houses needed something between and around gardens to mark property. Kieran Dodds; Text By Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2020 The Masters’ Houses, a short walk, include three pairs of identical semidetached houses for the Bauhaus masters and a detached single home for its director. Margo Pfeiff, latimes.com, 16 June 2019 The two live in a semidetached, Victorian house in Kenilworth and sometimes ride their bikes together the few miles to and from the Warwick campus. Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2014 Up the hill from the Anacostia Arts Center, Kadija Bangura, the center’s marketing manager, who grew up in London with parents from Trinidad and Sierra Leone, paid $187,000 in 2013 for her 1905 semidetached house. New York Times, 5 June 2018 The house is segmented into four semidetached barns, each shaped with the straightforwardness of a Monopoly house, its crisp corners and sharp silhouette revealing the eye of a modernist. Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2015 See More Word History
First Known Use
1856, in the meaning defined above
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